PREFACE. 



The method of preserving green crops, especially those 

 of fodder corn, by means of Ensilage, is one that the 

 wide-awake farmer of the present day can not afford to 

 ignore. The experiments already made in this country 

 show that this method of preserving green crops must, 

 it may be in an Americanized form, be adopted as a part 

 of our system of agriculture, The farmer who looks for 

 information on this subject finds it scattered through, 

 the various agricultural journals, or in works which are 

 ostensibly upon Ensilage, but often largely devoted to 

 advertising other matters. 



To bring together the facts concerning Ensilage that 

 are really important to the farmer, scattered through the 

 journals and elsewhere, and to present them in a com- 

 pact form, divested of all irrelevant matter, is the object 

 of the present work, which claims only to be a com- 

 pilation. In the earlier chapters the leading points are 

 presented, and these are illustrated by such accounts of 

 individual experience as seem most appropriate. 



In a compilation like the present, any omission to 

 give credit must be regarded as accidental rather than 

 intentional. 



That this little work may be of aid to those seeking 

 information on the subject of Ensilage is the wish of 



THE EDITOR. 



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